Sally Mann.

 ''These are pictures of my children… Many of these pictures are intimate, some are fictions and some are fantastic, but most are of ordinary things every mother has seen. I take pictures when they are bloodied or sick or naked or angry. They dress up, they pout and posture, they paint their bodies, they dive like otters in the dark river'' S.M

Looking at her photos makes me feel quite uncomfortable but i want more of this! Innocence, latent cruelty and anger... 

A lost childhood or a real one?

...something that is gone, something that will happen...

''Memory is the primary instrument, the inexhaustible nutrient source; these photographs open doors into the past but they also allow a look into the future.'' S.M.

 I feel that she captures the passage  from childhood to adolescence and from ignorance to sexuality.

Yes, it's like the period of adolescence, something very attractive and at the same time disturbing. That's why it
feels like you invade their privacy, you disturb somehow.

''There’s the paradox: we see the beauty and we see the dark side of things. The Japanese have a word for this dual perception: mono no aware. It means something like ''beauty tinged with sadness''. How is it that we must hold what we love tight to us, against our very bones, knowing we must also, when the time comes, let it go?'' S.M.